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The Azores again
Bermuda to the Azores 27 May 2017 - 17 June 2017 My previous trip from Bermuda to the Azores in 2013 was fairly painless and quite fast. This trip was much less comfortable. I had to spend part of one night hove too. Then I hit a whale. Then I spent three...
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Bermuda
I decided to go to Bermuda rather than head straight for the Azores (as many people seemed to be doing this year) more from force of habit than anything else. But I did want to see the America's Cup boats foiling even if I didn't have time to wait for...
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Round the world?
Have I gone round the world? With my arrival in Antigua I cross my trail for the first time. They didn't give F. Magellan the cigar until the Victoria sailed back up the Guadalquivir, though the expedition had already crossed its own track near the Cabo...
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Cabedelo
The trip from Saint Helena to Cabedelo in Brazil was another easy passage. Cabedelo, or rather the village or suburb of Jacare further up the Paraiba river where the marinas are, is not the unspoilt romantic traditional place promised by my sailing guide,...
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Saint Helena
The stage from Cape Town to Saint Helena was a dream compared to, well, practically all the stages since Noumea to Cairns. In St. Helena, I didn't manage to see Napoleon's house due to being too mean but I still enjoyed St. Helena. A strange place. Cape...
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South Africa
Despite the big pussy cats and the stripy donkeys and the warm welcome of the South Africans, I was happy to leave South Africa. I was not sorry I came, but the weather is wearing, the sailing isn't fun and the bureaucracy would make Franz Kafka applaud...
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New Zealand to South Africa
Happy New Year and all the best for 2017 to all you cruisers, ex-cruisers and non-cruisers. I had kind of given up on my blog. It is a rather slow and laborious process to load text and pictures into it and it needs a good internet connection to be bearable...
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Fiji
22 September – 13 October 2014, Savusavu Fiji, on Copra Shed Marina mooring I feel embarrassed writing this blog. I did nothing in Fiji except lay around on the boat; eat in the excellent Indian restaurants of Savusavu, drink cheap Fijian beer in the...
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Samoa to Fiji
17-22 September 2014, Apia Samoa to Savusavu Fiji 17/09 Wednesday 1530 Left Apia at 10h00 just behind Paul and Helen Dickson in Taimoshan. As we sailed along the north coast of Upolu, the smaller island in Samoa they kept a north westerly course and it...
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Samoa
18 – 30 August 2014, Bora Bora to Apia, Samoa 30 August – 17 September 2014, Apia, Samoa, anchored in Apia Bay then in Apia Marina 1 arrived in Samoa on Saturday 30th of August after a not particularly fun passage. All weathers except (happily) gale or...
